Sandra Friend

The award-winning author of 38 books, Sandra Friend started her travel writing career in the 1990s writing features for major newspapers like the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the Orlando Sentinel, and the Cleveland Plain Dealer, and magazines like Blue Ridge Country, Backpacker, and Rock & Gem. Her lifelong focus has been on the intersection of travel and the natural world. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Society of American Travel Writers and for the Florida Outdoor Writers Association.

By stepping into a new pair of writing shoes – taking on the fiction writing challenge called NaNoWriMo with the goal of completing writing a novel this month – I begin to experience the world differently.

On the Mackinac Straits, St. Ignace is known as a ferryboat departure point for Mackinac Island. Walk the North Country Trail through town, and you’ll discover the rich details of its founding and cultures that thrived on these shores.

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Follow along on our gentle adventures. We hike, bike, and paddle to explore natural beauty. We stop at museums and galleries. We shop and eat local. We believe in authenticity when we travel.– Sandra Friend & John Keatley